They said this thing was twice the thrust of a Saturn V so that is
15million lb of thrust! WOWZA I'm surprised you couldn't hear it
even across the state!
--FT
On 4/20/23 6:17 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote:
I watched it live and when it started to roll you could see that not
I watched it live and when it started to roll you could see that not all of the
engines were lit. I figured it might be RUD time.
-D
> On Apr 20, 2023, at 6:00 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Looks like the guidance package was not able to keep the booster properly
> oriented
Looks like the guidance package was not able to keep the booster
properly oriented and it started to tumble and blew up. Might have been
due to some engine failures as it looked like several were not firing.
Apparently the engineers adopted the Soviet Soyuz model where a certain
number of